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Selective students failing at uni
Heath Gilmore HIGHER EDUCATION
September 17, 2010 - 3:00AM
ONE in five selective high school students accepted into the University of Sydney is failing first-year subjects, new figures show. However, selective high school students still outperform students from other high schools.
The university has released for the first time the performance of its first-year students, categorising them by school background.
Marie Carroll, the university's director of academic affairs, said students from selective schools performed better overall, with 83 per cent passing all subjects last year.
Those from disadvantaged schools compared favourably, with 71 per cent passing all subjects. This was the same as the success rate of students from comprehensive government and independent high schools.
However, Professor Carroll said the inability of selective school students to transfer their success to university highlighted a wider problem.
She said high schools which inculcated an independent learning atmosphere helped make the transition to higher education easier.
''Many are slow to adapt to the unstructured and unsupported environment of university, plus the parties and other changes and freedom going on as well,'' she said.
Professor Carroll said many selective school students carried burdens of expectation when choosing subjects and courses based on their year 12 results.
''There is an expectation on them to do something with their high HSC mark from family or friends, and they get locked into a narrower choice,'' she said.
''It's more the pity some don't do a bachelor of arts to which they would be better suited.
''They find they have chosen the wrong subject and it's too late to withdraw. Typically, with the really bright students, once they realise they have chosen wrongly, they don't care.''
The 151-year-old institution, under its vice-chancellor, Michael Spence, has committed to broadening the recruitment of students, focusing on lifting the numbers of students from disadvantaged schools, comprising 5 per cent of its first-year intake last year.
The students from disadvantaged backgrounds who passed all their subjects were distributed across the 17 faculties, the highest numbers concentrated in health, science, arts and engineering subjects.
''Intelligence isn't concentrated in high social-economic status brackets,'' Professor Carroll said.
''We are wasting a lot of the talent of this country not picking students of promise, but we do know these students, once they get here, are resilient and struggle against the odds to succeed.''
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/e ... 20100916-15eqr.html |
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发表于 2010-9-17 12:01
